1. In what way can teachers uphold the highest possible standards of
the teaching profession?
a. By pointing out the advantages of joining the teaching profession
b. By good grooming to change people‘s perception of teacher
c. By continuously
improving themselves personally and professionally
d. None of the above
2. To reach out to clientele who cannot be in the classroom for one
reason or another, which of the following was established?
a. Special education (SPED)
b. Informal education
c. Alternative learning delivery system
d. Pre-school education
3. In the context of multiple intelligences, which one is the
weakness of the paper- pencil test?
a. It put non-linguistically intelligent pupils
at a disadvantage
b. It requires paper and printing and is so expensive
c. It utilizes so much time
d. It lacks reliability
4. Out of 3 distracters in a multiple choice test item, namely X, Y
and Z, no pupil chose Z as an answer. This implies that Z is .
a. An effective distracter
b. A plausible distracter
c. A vague distracter
d. An ineffective distracter
5. The Thematic Appreciation Test is an example of a (an) .
a. Self-report technique
b. Projective technique
c. Interest inventory
d. Socio-metric technique
6. The following are features of the Restructure Basic Education
Curriculum, except:
a. Increased time for tasks to gain mastery of competencies
b. Interdisciplinary modes of teaching
c. Greater emphasis on content, less on the
learning process
d. Stronger integration of competencies and values, across the
learning area
7. The free public elementary and secondary education in the country
is in the line with the government effort to address educational problems of_____.
a. access and equity
b. relevance and quality
c. effectiveness and efficiency
d. productivity
8. The task of setting up routine activities for effective classroom
management as a task that a teacher should undertake .
a. on the very first day of school
b. every day at the start of the session
c. every homeroom day
d. as soon as the students have adjusted on their schedule
9. Teacher Honey uses direct instruction strategy. Which will she
first do?
a. Independent practice
b. Guided student practice
c. Review the previous day‘s work
d. Presenting and structuring
10. Teacher Janice observes cleanliness and order in her classroom to
create a conductive atmosphere for learning. On which theory is her practice
based?
a. Behaviorism
b. Psychoanalysis
c. Gestalt psychology
d. Humanistic psychology
11. Which activity is meant for kinesthetically intelligent pupils?
a. Independent study
b. Individualized study
c. Pantomime
d. Cooperative learning
12. With which will the existentialist agree? The school is a place
where individuals _______.
a. Listen and accept what the teacher say
b. Can meet to pursue dialogue and discussion
about their lives and choices
c. Can observe by using their senses to the maximum
d. Can reflect on ideas
13. Which will be the most authentic assessment tool for an
instructional objective on working with and relating to people?
a. Writing articles on working and relating to people
b. Organizing a community project
c. Home visitation
d. Conducting mock election
14. Which physical arrangement of chairs contributes to effective
classroom management?
a. Sticks to the traditional chair arrangement in the classroom
b. Distinguishes teacher from students
c. Makes it easier to clean the room
d. Enhances classroom interaction
15. Each teacher said to be a trustee of cultural and educational
heritage of the nation and under obligation to transmit to learners such
heritage. Which practice makes him fulfill such obligation?
a. Use of the latest instructional technology
b. Study of the life of Filipino heroes
c. Use of interactive teaching strategies
d. Observing continuing professional education
16. Under which type of guidance service does the concern of schools to
put students into their most appropriate courses fall?
a. Individual inventory service
b. Research service
c. Placement service
d. Information service
17. Conducting follow up studies of graduates and drop out is a
guidance service that falls under:
a. Placement services
b. Research service
c. Individual inventory services
d. Counseling service
18. Under which assumption is portfolio assessment based?
a. Assessment should stress the reproduction of knowledge
b. An individual learner is adequately characterized by a test score
c. An individual learner is inadequately characterized by a test
score
d. Portfolio assessment is dynamic assessment
19. Which program was adopted to provide universal access to basic
education to eradicate illiteracy?
a. Values educational framework
b. Education for all
c. Paaralan sa bawat barangay
d. Science and Education Development Plan
20. Which schools are subject to supervision, regulation and control by
the state?
a. Public, Private sectarian and Non-sectarian
b. Sectarian and non-sectarian school
c. Private school
d. Public schools
21. Here is a score distribution: 98, 93, 93, 93, 90, 88, 87, 85, 85,
85, 70, 51, 34, 34, 34, 20, 18, 15, 12, 9, 8, 6, 3, 1. what is the
characteristic of the score distribution?
a. Bimodal
b. Trimodal
c. Skewed to the right
d. No discernible pattern
22. What do the school campus expression ―promdi and barriotic
indicate?
a. The powerlessness of the poor
b. The power of the rich
c. Low literacy rate of the country
d. The prevalence of ethnocentrism
23. Why is babyhood referred to as a ―critical period‖ in
personally development? Because _______.
a. The foundation is laid upon in which the
adult personally structure will be built
b. The baby is exposed to many physical and psychological hazards
c. The brain grows and develops as such accelerated rate during
babyhood
d. Changes in the personality pattern take place
24. Billy, a grade 1 pupil is asked, Why do you pray every day?‖
Billy answer. Mommy said so.‖ Based on Kohlberg‘s theory, in which moral development
stage is Billy?
a. Pre-Conventional level
b. Conventional level
c. Between conventional and post conventional levels
d. Post-Conventional level
25. If you plan to develop a lesson on using s-verb with the third
person singular as subject deductively, what is the first step in your lesson
development outline?
a. Give sentences using s-verb form
b. Ask the students about s-verb form and third person singular as
subject
c. State the rule on subject-verb agreement for
third person as subject
d. Conduct
appropriate sentence drill
26. For lesson clarity and effective retention, which one should a
teacher observes, according to Bruner‘s theory?
a. Start at the concrete level and end there
b. Begin teaching at the concrete level but go
beyond it by reaching the abstract
c. End teaching with verbal symbol
d. Use purely verbal symbols in teaching
27. The criterion of success in Teacher Edna‘s objective is that the
pupils must be able to spell 90% of the words correctly.‖
Linda and other 24 students in the class spelled only 40 out of 50 words
correctly while the rest scored 45 and above. This means that Teacher Edna
______.
a. Did not attain her lesson objective because of the pupil‘s lack
of attention
b. Attained her lesson objective because of the pupil‘s lack of
attention
c. Attained her lesson objective
d. Failed to attain her lesson objective as far
as the 25 pupils are concerned
28. Which is true when standard deviation is big?
a. Scores are concentrated
b. Scores are not extremes
c. Scores are spread apart
d. The bell curve shape is steep
29. Theft of school equipment like TV, computer, etc. by teenagers in
the community itself is becoming a common phenomenon. What does this incident
signify?
a. Deprivation of Filipino schools
b. Inability of school to hire security guards
c. Prevalence of poverty in the community
d. Community‘s lack of sense of co-ownership
30. What does extreme authoritarianism in the home reinforce in
learners?
a. Creativity in work
b. Ability to direct themselves
c. Doing things on their own initiative
d. Dependence on others for direction
31. The main purpose of compulsory study of the constitution is to____.
a. Make constitutional experts of the students
b. Develop students into responsible, thinking
citizens
c. Prepare students for law-making
d. Acquaint students with the historical development of the
Philippine Constitution
32. Studies in the areas of neurosciences disclosed that the human
brain has limitless capacity. What does this imply?
a. Every child is a potential genius
b. Pupils can possibly reach a point where they have learned
everything
c. Some pupils are admitted not capable of learning
d. Every pupil has his its own native ability and his learning is
limited to this native ability
33. The principle of individual differences requires teachers to
_______.
a. Treat all learners alike while in the classroom
b. Prepare modules for slow learners in class
c. Give greater attention to gifted learners
d. Provide for a variety of learning activities
34. Which assumption underlines the teacher‘s use of performance
objectives?
a. Performance objectives assure the learner of learning
b. Learning is defined as a change in the
learner‘s observable performance
c. The success of learners is based on teacher performance
d. Not every form of learning is observable
35. Which is/are sign/s of the student with Attention Deficit Disorder?
a. Impatient while waiting for his/her turn during
games
b. Completes work before shifting to another
c. Excessively quiet
d. Cares for his/her personal things
36. You observe that pupils answer even when not called, shouts MA‘AM
to get your attention, and laugh when someone commits mistakes. What should you
do?
a. Send the misbehaving pupils to the guidance counselor
b. Set the rules for the class to observe
c. Involve the whole class in setting rules of
conduct for the whole class
d. Make a report to the parents about their children‘s misbehavior
37. Which seating arrangement has been proven to be effective for
learning?
a. Flexible to suit varied activities
b. Fixed arrangement to maximize instructional time
c. Any seat arrangement to suit varied learning
styles
d. A combination of fixed and flexible arrangement
38. Which can run counter to the encouragement you give to your students
to ask questions?
a. Eye to eye contact
b. An encouraging hand gesture
c. Radiant face
d. Knitted eyebrows when a question is raised
39. Teacher Lenny demonstrated to the class how to focus the
microscope, after which the students were asked to practice. Which teacher
prompting is least intrusive? Teacher Lenny_____.
a. Held the hand of a student and with her hand holding the
student‘s hand adjusted the mirror
b. Pointed to the mirror and made an adjusting gesture with her hand
c. Adjusted the mirror
d. Reminded the class to first adjust the
mirror
40. Which educational trend is occurring in all modern societies as a
result of knowledge explosion and rapid social, technological and economic
changes?
a. Nuclear education
b. International education
c. Lifelong learning
d. Team teaching
41. With the advent of multi-media resources and computers, which is
the most favorable result of the optimal use of educational media technology?
a. Interactive learning
b. Increase learning
c. Speed learning
d. More interesting learning
42. Which refers to the Filipino trait of practicing conflicting values
in different venues and with different social groups?
a. Kanya-kanya‖ mentality
b. Procrastination
c. Existential intelligence
d. Crab mentality
43. Which of these can measure awareness of values?
a. Projective techniques
b. Rating scales
c. Moral dilemmas
d. Sociogram
44. Which test determines whether students accept responsibility for
their own behavior or pass on responsibility for their own behavior to other
people?
a. Locus-of-control tests
b. Sentence-completion tests
c. Thematic tests
d. Stylistic tests
45. Which process enhances the comparability of grades?
a. Giving more Higher Order thinking skills
b. Constructing departmentalized exam for each
subject area
c. Determining the level of difficulty of the test
d. Using a table of specification
46. Under which type of guidance service does the concern of school to
put students into their most appropriate courses fall?
a. Information service
b. Placement service
c. Individual inventory services
d. Research services
47. The teacher‘s role in the classroom according to cognitive
psychologist is to ______.
a. Make the learning task easy for the learner
b. Dictate what to learn upon the learner
c. Fill the minds of the learner with information
d. Help the learner connect what they know with
new information from the teacher
48. Which questioning technique would be appropriate for inductive
lessons?
a. Involve students actively in the questioning
process
b. Expect participation only among the more motivated students
c. Use questions requiring only memory responses
d. As a teacher, you ask no questions
49. Which statement is true in a bell-shaped curve?
a. There are more high scores than low scores
b. Most scores are high
c. The scores are normally distributed
d. The bell curve shape is steep.
50. Can an insane person be blamed for killing a stranger?
a. Yes, because an insane person possesses a little degree of
voluntariness
b. Yes, because an insane person is not totally ignorant
c. No, because of his ignorance and lack of
voluntariness
d. No, because the one killed is a stranger, not in any way related
to him
51. A political boss builds a school in a distant barrio in order to
get the votes for an unworthy and corrupt candidate. Is the action of the
political boss moral?
a. No, the candidate is undeserving
b. No, his move was not meant for good effect
c. Yes, the votes were exchange for the school built
d. Yes, it was his duty to strategies for his candidate to win
52. The teacher‘s first task in the selection of media in teaching is
to determine the:
a. Choice of the teacher
b. Availability of the media
c. Technique to be used
d. Choice of the students
53. Which is the true foundation of the social order?
a. Strong political leadership
b. The reciprocation of rights and duties
c. Equitable distribution of wealth
d. Obedient citizen
54. All the examinees obtained scores below the mean. A graphic
representation of the score distribution will be:
a. Perfect normal curve
b. Negatively skewed
c. Positively skewed
d. Leptokurtic
55. In a normal distribution curve, a T-score of 70 is:
a. Two SDs above the mean
b. Two SDs below the mean
c. One SD below the mean
d. One SD above the mean
56. Which one stifles student‘s initiative?
a. Bahala na‖
b. Utang na loob‖
c. Rationalism
d. Extreme authoritarianism
57. The following are trends in marking and reporting system, except:
a. Supplementing subject grades with checklist on traits
b. Conducting parent-teacher conferences as often as needed
c. Raising the passing grade from 70 to 80
d. Indicating strong points as well as those needing improvement
58. Which is a type of graph in which lines represent each score or set
of scores?
a. Histogram
b. Scatter gram
c. Scatter plot
d. Frequency polygon
59. Which is an example of a perfect duty?
a. Paying the worker the wages agreed upon
b. Donating an amount for a noble project
c. Giving alms to the needy
d. Supporting a poor but deserving student to school
60. In what way can instructional aides enhance learning?
a. Entertain student
b. Hold students in the classroom
c. Reinforce learning
d. Take the place of the teacher
61. The study on types of reading exercises gives practice in:
a. All sorts of study methods
b. Reading skills needed in other project
c. Recognizing the precise meaning of words
d. Picking out the man ideas
62. How students learn may be more important than what they learn. From
this principle, which of the following is particularly important?
a. Knowing how to solve a problem
b. Solving a problem within time allotted
c. Getting the right answer to a word problem
d. Determining the given
63. Which illustrates vicarious punishment?
a. We feel so bad to a
classmate who is punished for being tardy so we convince him go to school on
time
b. Out of comparison, we
volunteer to get punished in place of a friend
c. We charge to experience
our being punished
d. See someone get
punished for habitual tardiness. In effect, we are less likely to be tardy
64. Teacher Marissa wants to review and check on the lesson of the
previous day? Which one will be most reliable?
a. Having students correct each other‘s work
b. Having students identify difficult homework problems
c. Explicitly reviewing the task relevant
information for the day‘s lesson
d. Sampling the understanding of a few students
65. To promote effective practice, which guideline should you bear in
mind? Practice should be______.
a. Difficult for students to learn a lesson
b. Arranged to allow students to receive
feedback
c. Done in an evaluative atmosphere
d. Take place over a long period of time
66. Which is one role of play in the pre-school and early childhood
years?
a. Separates reality from fantasy
b. Develops the upper and lower limbs
c. Develop competitive spirit
d. Increase imagination due to expanding
knowledge and emotional range
67. For which may you use the direct instruction method?
a. Use a microscope properly
b. Distinguish war from aggression
c. Appreciate Milton‘s Paradise Lost
d. Become aware of the pollutants around us
68. By what name is indirect instruction or Socratic methods also
known?
a. Questioning method
b. Morrison method
c. Indirect method
d. Mastery learning
69. Which does not belong to the group of alternative learning systems?
a. Multi-age grouping
b. Multi-grade grouping
c. Non-graded grouping
d. Graded education
70. Student Ben was asked to report to the Guidance Office. Student Ben
and his classmates at once remarked.
What‘s wrong? What does this
imply?
a. Reporting to a Guidance Office is often
associated with misbehavior
b. Student Ben is a problem student
c. Guidance counselors are perceived to be ―almighty and omniscient
d. The parents of Students Ben must be of the delinquent type
71. A teacher combined several subject areas in order to focus on a
single concept for interdisciplinary teaching. Which strategy/method did he
use?
a. Unit method
b. Thematic instruction
c. Problem entered learning
d. Reading-writing method
72. Which is a major advantage of curriculum-based assessment?
a. It tends to focus on anecdotal information on student‘s progress
b. It is based on a norm referenced measurement model
c. It is informal in nature
d. It connects testing with teaching
73. A school Division Superintendent was enthusiastically lecturing on
the Accreditation Program for Public Elementary Schools (APPES), its benefits
and demands. Thinking of its many demands, most of the school heads were not
very happy about it and the older one were whispering ―we have very reason to
retire soon.
What does this tell about
the change process?
a. People resist change for
no reason
b. People tend to resist
change
c. Resistance to change is
insurmountable
d. Leadership can
affect the desired change in persons despite opposition from the persons
themselves.
74. I want to engage my students in small group discussion. Which topic
lends itself to a lively discussion?
a. The meaning of the law of supply and demand
b. Rules on subject-verb agreement
c. The law of inertia
d. The exclusion of Pluto as a planet
75. In which of the following would programmed learning to be most
likely to be found?
a. In a class divided into small groups
b. Independent study
c. In dyadic groups
d. In a class
where teacher tries to individualized instruction
76. A master teacher, the resource speaker in an in-service training,
presented the situated learning theory and encouraged her colleagues to apply
the same in class. Which did she not encourage her colleagues to do?
a. Apprenticeship
b. Learning as it normally occurs
c. Authentic problem solving
d. Decontextualized teaching
77. Which is the ultimate aim of classroom management?
a. To set up condition that brings about effective
teaching and learning
b. To secure conformity to rules with ease
c. To make children realize that they cannot do everything they want
d. To remove the physical
condition in the room
78. Under which teaching strategy does a School‘s division practice of
assigning a Girl Scout to serve as Superintendent of the Day or Mayor of the
Day for leadership training fall?
a. Panel discussion
b. Symposium
c. Simulation
d. Dramatization
79. The grades make valid indicators of students‘ achievements. Which
process should be observed?
a. Explaining the meaning of marks and grades
b. Defining the course objective as intended
learning outcomes
c. Adopting letter grades such as A, B, C and D
d. Giving objective type of tests
80. Who are not covered by the Code of Ethics of Professional Teachers?
a. All full time or part time public and private school teacher and
administrator
b. Teachers of academic, vocational, special, technical or
non-formal institution
c. Teacher in the tertiary level
d. Teacher in all educational institutions at all levels
81. Which of the UNESCO‘s four pillars of education is most related to
peace education?
a. Learning to do
b. Learning to know
c. Learning to live
d. Learning to be
82. The failure of independent study with most Filipino students may be
attributed to students‘ _.
a. high degree of independence
b. ambiance
c. unpreparedness for schooling
d. high degree of dependence on authority
83. Where do you make the correction of your notes while using the
overhead projector?
a. On the slide
b. On the overhead projector
c. On the projector wall
d. On the screen
84. Authority comes from God and is meant to:
a. Help those given the authority to do their
task
b. Distinguish those with authority from those without
c. Be lorded over others
d. Make the subjects of authority recognize their superiors
85. A person, who has had painful experiences at the dentist‘s office,
may become fearful at the mere sight of the dentist‘s office building. Which
theory can explain this?
a. Classical conditioning
b. Generalization
c. Operant conditioning
d. Attribution theory
86. One strength of an autobiography as a technique for personality
appraisal is that _____________.
a. It may be read by unauthorized people
b. It can replace data obtained from other data-gathering technique
c. It makes possible the presentation of
intimate experiences
d. It gives complete data about the author
87. All of the following describe the development of children aged
eleven to thirteen, except:
a. Sex differences in IQ become more evident
b. They exhibit increased objectivity in thinking
c. They shift from impulsivity to adaptive ability
d. They show abstract thinking and judgment
88. The environment in order to facilitate learning must be
interactive. Which of the following best typifies this kind of environment?
a. The child listens to a lecture on fossils given by the teacher
b. The child goes out and discovers for himself
some rock or fossil
c. The child summarize the section on fossils in his science
textbook
d. The child copies a list of facts concerning fossils on the
blackboard
89. Social development means the acquisition of the ability to behave
in accordance with:
a. Stereotyped behavior
b. Social expectation
c. Social insight
d. Universal norms
90. When an adolescent combines ability to use deductive and inductive
reasoning in constructing realistic rules that he can respect and live by, how
does he perceive his environment?
a. He views the world from his own perspective
b. He sees the world and himself through the eyes of other people
c. He interprets events form a limited views
d. He sees events apart from himself and other
people
91. The authoritarian setting in the Filipino home is reinforced by a
classroom teacher who:
a. Is open to suggestions
b. Encourage pupils to ask questions
c. Prescribes what pupils should do
d. Ask open ended questions
92. The Constitutional provision on language has the following aim,
except:
a. To make Filipino the sole medium of
instruction
b. To make the regional dialect as auxiliary media of instructions
in regional school
c. To maintain English as a second language
d. To make Filipino the national Language and medium of instruction
and communication
93. The tendency to emphasize so much on school beautification to the
detriment of pupils‘ performance illustrates the:
a. Filipino‘s lack of seriousness
b. Filipino‘s love for ―porma
c. Filipino‘s lack of reflection
d. Filipino‘s sense of humor
94. In order to avoid disgrace, a pregnant, unmarried woman takes drugs
to induce abortion. Is she morally justified to do that?
a. Yes, it can save her and child from disgrace when he grows up
b. No, the act of inducing abortion is bad in itself
c. No, the unborn child cannot be made to
suffer the consequences of the sins of his parents
d. No, it is better to prevent the child from coming into the world
who will suffer very much due to the absence of a father
95. In which way does heredity affect the development of the learner?
a. By placing limits beyond which the learner
cannot develop
b. By providing equal potential to all
c. By compensating for what environment fails to develop
d. By blocking the influence of environment
96. A child refuse to obey orders or displays negativism as a
development trait. How may you best handle him?
a. Detain him after office hours for him do to what he has been
ordered to do
b. Take every opportunity to praise him for
every positive attitude display
c. Insist on compliance to the same degree required of pupils
d. Avoid giving him orders if you do and he objects take back the
order
97. If a resilient child with superior intelligence is reared in a poor
environment the probable outcome would be:
a. No change in IQ because environment deprivation has nothing to do
with intelligence
b. Mental retardation since he is culturally deprived
c. Slight change in IQ although he can overcome
frustration and obstacle
d. Great change in IQ because he is culturally deprived
98. Section 5, Article XIV, of the Constitution states that academic
freedom shall be enjoyed in:
a. Public assemblies
b. All institution of higher learning
c. State colleges and universities
d. All levels of learning
99. A teacher who subscribes to the pragmatic philosophy of education
believes that experience should follow learning in her teaching, she therefore
exerts effort in:
a. Encouraging learners to memorize factual knowledge
b. Providing learners opportunities to apply
theories and principles
c. Equipping learners with the basic abilities and skills
d. Requiring learners full mastery of the lesson
100. As a parent and at the
same time a teacher, which of the following will you do to show your
cooperation to a PTA project in your school to be financed with the proceeds of
the sales of the school canteen where food prices are little bit higher?
a. Bring food for you and your children, but
always make it a point to buy in the school canteen
b. Buy all your food in the school canteen but request for a
discount
c. Bring food enough for you and your children but do not eat in the
canteen
d. Buy all your food from the school canteen even if you cannot
afford to do every day